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―― THE ONLY TRUE SUCCESS IS HAPPINESS ――
B-Pの著書 “Rovering To Success”(1922) の論理展開の心髄部分といえるのが、次の論述であると思います。B-Pのこの考え方が礎となり、彼の論理構築に、そしてボーイスカウト実践の全般にわたり、命を吹き込むことができたのだと、私は思いました。
THE ONLY TRUE SUCCESS IS HAPPINESS
What is success?
Top of the tree? Riches? Position? Power?
Not a bit of it!
These and many other ideas will naturally occur to your mind. They are what are generally preached as success, and also they generally mean overreaching some other fellows and showing that you are better than they are in one line or another. In other words, gaining something at another's expense.
That is not my idea of success.
My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life ― that is, TO BE HAPPY.
That is what I count as success, to be happy. But Happiness is not merely passive; that is, you don't get it by sitting down to receive it; that would be a smaller thing ― pleasure.
But we are given arms and legs and brains and ambitions with which to be active; and it is the active that counts more than the passive in gaining true Happiness.
※ このことは、B-Pの著書 “SCOUTING FOR BOYS” (Twenty-Eighth Edition,1953) の PART THREE “PRINCIPLES AND METHODS” の “Education”内の論述、また “The Scouter” 誌に記された彼の主張等から読み取ることができます。
To-day one of the worst faults in the nation is narrow sectional outlook ; authorities on all hands speak of the need of cheery good-will and co-operation as the antidote to most of our troubles.
The common method of education does little in this direction. Indeed, unless due care is taken, it holds within it a certain danger, the danger of encouraging self-interest in the boy, regardless of or even in rivalry to, the interests of others. He is encouraged to be top of his class, to win prizes and scholarships for himself in competition with classmates, to be ambitious, to aim for the best things in life, without counterbalancing instruction in his duty to the State and in helpfulness and consideration for others.
The result is that high-brow cults, class jealousies, industrial disputes, sectarian differences, addiction to sport, political and international rivalries, all exist and have their exaggerated values because men have never been taught to look wide, to see with their neighbour’s eyes, and to use in active practice their good-will and co-operation. This neglect is at the root of most of our troubles to-day, whether industrial, political, religious, social, or international.
It is here, again, that Scouting can come in and help with its definite training in its sense of duty and service for others. It aims to give the boy a practical idea of the responsibilities of life that lie before him and endeavours to inculcate the practice of his religion in his everyday life and doings.
( SCOUTING FOR BOYS Twenty-Eighth Edition(1953) PRESENTATION EDITION, p290)
At present the country spends so many millions on education, that is on training its sons and daughters to be good, healthy, prosperous citizens, and if education successfully effected this result there would be little to say against it.
But we have to look at the other side of the balance sheet as it actually exists. Here we find that we spend an equal number of millions on punishing our “educated” people for failing to be the good citizens they ought to be, or on trying to remedy their defects in this direction.
Prisons and police, poor relief and unemployed, aged poor and infant mortality, squalor, irreligion, seething discontent ― what a crop of tares for all our sowing of expensive seed! All traceable more or less directly to the want of education ― not education in the three R’s, but education in high ideals, in self-reliance, in sense of duty, in fortitude, in self-respect and regard for others ― in one word, in those Christian attributes that go to make “Character,” which is the essential equipment for a successful career.
Is this being looked to in the new scheme of education?
In the Boy Scout Movement our aim is, as far as possible, so to shape our syllabus as to make it a practical form of character training, and to render it complementary to the scholastic training of the schools.
from “Education ― Debtor and Creditor” / October, 1913 / The Scouter / B.-P.'S OUTLOOK
参考までに
ROVERING TO SUCCESS (カナダ ScoutsCan.com ウェブサイト)
<http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/rts.pdf>
ローバーリング ツゥ サクセス (やんちゃ隊の資料庫 ウェブサイト)
<http://scout.o.oo7.jp/rts.pdf>
スカウティング フォア ボーイズ 第27版 (ボーイスカウト神奈川連盟県央地区ウェブサイト)
<http://www.bskanagawa-kenoh.org/pdf/SFB27(1952).pdf>
B.-P.'S OUTLOOK (カナダ ScoutsCan.com ウェブサイト)
<http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.pdf>
Constitution of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
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